Tristania.] XLVIII. MYRTACEX. 205 
late, oval-elliptical, 14 to 24 in. long, obtuse or almost acute, narrowed at 
h 
ase, penniveined, glabrous above, white underneath with a close to- 
mentum. Flowers in d rymbose cymes in the upper axils or almost 
ruin SC SSe Ar eege into a short — the tube 
flattened calyx-tube, the lobes spreading or deciduous. Seeds very flat, but 
inged. 
Pu Australia. Brunswick Bay, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; islands of the N. coast, 
- Brown. 
8: T. (?) umbrosa, 4. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. under n. 1839. The specimens 
"n fruit only and much resemble those of T. psidioides, except that they 
early glabrous, the leaves are not white underneath and all opposite. 
Fruits and seeds of T. psidioides. 
N. Australia. Hunter s River, York Sound, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham. 
99. seine Ten. 
part erect or ei lobes 4 or rarely 5; — Petals 4 or rarely 
5, spreading. Stamens indefinite, free,in 1 or 2 series, sometimes interrupted 
lon s linear-cuneate, testa thin, embryo straight, cotyledons plano- convex, 
read than the radicle. — Trees. Leaves o opposite, penniveined. Flowers in 
ut ts heads, either solitary on axillary peduncles or forming ter- 
panicles 
"ond genus consists of two species meris a and differing SE as much 
Cal each other as either one doe a fro anders 
“ry ^am Petals bn. Ov. uS n ema dert several ovules in 
x 1. S. laurifolia 
ui free. Petals narrow. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell 2. S. eptopetala. 
l. S. laurifolia, Ten. in Mem. Soc. Ital. Sc. Moden. xxii. t. 1. A 
T tree, the y oung idet We under side of the leaves more or less hoary- 
Dee SS glaucous. aves appearing sometimes in whorls of 4 4 from 2 
obi, ose together, from broadly — to metteg t: dá 
ch "geng glabrous above, 2 to 3 in. long, on lot] lod m. 
White, unite , 6 to 10 together in globular ar on peduncles of i 
pn the base of the new shoots, with 2 to 4 bracts close under the 
either Mic. and seale-like or leaf-like and exceeding the flowers. 
